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Canadian Railroads > Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, OntarioDate: 09/26/20 15:14 Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: AlcoRSD15 This saga is continued from the Nostalgia & History board. In October 1986, a bunch of us San Francisco Bay Area railfans went east to New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Ontario in search of Alcos, MLWs, F units and other stuff that we couldn’t see in California.
After railfanning around Binghamton, NY and foaming Conrail’s Boston & Albany line (see previous posts), we headed to Ontario. On October 18, we met fellow “Berkeley Gang” member Brad at Bayview Junction. After catching a few trains there, we spent the afternoon at Newtonville, Ontario, about 90 km east of Toronto. Here the CN and CP mainlines from Toronto to Montreal are in close proximity to each other. The two overpasses of Newtonville Road are great places from which to photograph trains. Soon after we arrived, we got a running meet with an eastbound CN (9518-9431-2011) and a westbound VIA train with FPA4 6770 on the point! Some well-placed gondolas allowed me to get a shot of the 6770. - Eric Blasko Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/20 17:54 by AlcoRSD15.    Date: 09/26/20 15:16 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: AlcoRSD15 Next up was an eastbound on the CP line, with a colorful combo of CP5934-Chessie3731-Chessie3717-B&O3729. Apparently CP was leasing a bunch of GPs from the Chessie System at this time. Third photo: Graffiti on the bridge over the CN tracks.
   Date: 09/26/20 15:17 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: AlcoRSD15 Next, we got another running meet on the CN double track line: westbound CN with an SD40-2W and two big MLWs (5298-2037-2332) and an eastbound VIA train with LRC 6920. In the second and third photos, the single track CP line is visible in the distance at the right.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/20 15:18 by AlcoRSD15.    Date: 09/26/20 15:20 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: AlcoRSD15 Finally, at the end of the day, another westbound CN showed up with three SD40-2Ws (5358-5297-5360). While we were hanging out at Newtonville, Gary Zuters showed up, who was very knowledgeable and gave us a lot of tips on where to watch trains around Toronto. - Eric B.
The first 5 posts of the tale of this trip are as follows: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5099148 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5102277 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5103264 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5104831 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5106819   Date: 09/26/20 16:34 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: gaspeamtrak Excellent pictures ! They bring back lots of memories.
I really like the picture with "if you voted for Trudeau" My thought for these times would be to take Trudeau off and insert "Trump" LOL... Lets hope you know who doesn't see this and gets bent out of shape...LOL... Date: 09/27/20 08:01 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: dwatry Eric - In #8 the LRC comin' at ya almost looks like a wayward BART train with an original A car leading! Well past the eastern end of tracks in Concord at that time!
Date: 09/27/20 09:44 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: AlcoRSD15 Yes, the LRCs definitely looked like BART
Posted from iPhone Date: 09/28/20 06:33 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: Goldie My favorite train watching spot. Sadly the wooden bridges are gone. Thanks for the posts.
Date: 09/29/20 11:17 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: AlcoRSD15 Is there still a wooden bridge at Lovekin? There was in 2015, last time I was there. - Eric B.
Date: 09/30/20 06:10 Re: Calif. boys go East, 1986 Part 6: Newtonville, Ontario Author: Goldie It was there last year. The wooden bridges ( there were two that spanned the CNR and CPR) at Nichols Road are gone.
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